IPCHS. Integrated People-Centred Health Services

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April 17, 2020 Africa Publication
Engaging and empowering people and communities, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors, Creating an enabling environment

'They are inconveniencing us' - exploring how gaps in patient education and patient centred approaches interfere with TB treatment adherence: perspectives from patients and clinicians in the Free State Province, South Africa.

Tuberculosis (TB) treatment loss to follow up (LTFU) plays an important contributory role to the staggering TB epidemic in South Africa. Reasons for treatment interruption are poorly understood.Treatment interruption appears to be the culmination of poor health literacy of patients and inadequate health education provided by clinicians. Limited occupational opportunities, fear of disclosure and stigmatization all contributed to treatment LTFU. Clinicians concurred that poor patient understanding of TB and that biomedical management lacking a psycho-social dimension further exacerbated the poor treatment outcome. TB remains a social disease, the successful management of which hinges on patient-centred care.

adherence, health literacy, knowledge, loss to follow up, messaging, patient-centered care, tuberculosis tb
Nov. 14, 2020 Global Publication
Strengthening governance and accountability, Reorienting the model of care, Coordinating services within and across sectors

Research in Integrated Care: The Need for More Emergent, People-Centred Approaches

The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) recently celebrated its 20th International Conference (ICIC20) through a virtual event that brought together patients and carers, academics, care professionals, NGOs, policy-makers and industry partners from across the global integrated care community. The International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC) used this opportunity to host a workshop on published research in integrated care, specifically to reflect on the quality of existing scientific enquiry. A lively discussion on the current state of integrated care research concluded that there remained significant shortcomings to current methodologies – for example, in their ability to provide the depth of understanding required to support the knowledge needed to best inform policy and practice, particularly when addressing people-centredness. In part, the debate recognized how the nature of existing research funding, and prevailing attitudes and preferences towards certain research methodologies, were partly to blame (as has been noted by IJIC previously). The ...

assessment, complexity, engaging and empower people in communities, governance, integrated care, knowledge, needs, paradigms, people-centred, research priorities, strengthening health workforce
Dec. 23, 2020

Revisiting the future of integrated health services delivery

In this presentation, Dr. Minkman share some thoughts about the future of integrated care and integrated health services, by proposing an overview of main four components that support integrated services delivery. In addition, she presents a recent body of knowledge in this area identifying 18 underlying values of integrated service delivery in different contexts.

 

 

framework, integrated care, knowledge, values